Exodus 23.25
25."
You shall worship the Lord your GOD, and I will bless your bread and your water,
and I will take sickness away from among you."
(Deuteronomy 7.15)
Exodus 15.26
26.He said, "If you will listen carefully to the voice of the Lord your GOD and do that is right in His sight,
and follow His Commandments and keep all His Statues,
I will not bring upon you any of the diseases that I brought upon the Egyptians, I am the Lord Who heals you."
2kings 5.14
14."So he
(Naaman the Syrian) went down and immersed himself seven times in the
Jordan according to the word of the man of GOD
(Elisha),
his flesh was restored like the flesh of a young boy and he was clean (Luke 4.27).
2Kings 20.1-7
1.In those days Hezekiah
(13th king of Judah) became
sick and was at the point of death. The prophet Isaiah son of Amoz came to him and said to him, "Thus says the Lord: '
Set your house in order, you shall die, you shall not recover."
2.
Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to the Lord.
3."
Remember now O Lord, I implore You, how I have walked before You in faithfulness with a whole heart and have done what is good in Your sight." Hezekiah wept bitterly.
4.Before Isaiah had gone out of the middle court, the Word of the Lord came to him.
5."Turn back and say to Hezekiah prince of My people. Thus says the Lord the GOD of your ancestor David.
I have heard your prayer. I have seen your tears, indeed I will heal you, on the third day you shall go up to the House of the Lord.
6.
I will add fifteen years to your life, I will deliver you and this city
(Jerusalem) out of the hand of the king of
Assyria. I will defend this city for My own sake and for My servant
David's sake."
7.The Isaiah said, "Bring a lump of figs. Let them take it and apply it to the boil, so that he may recover."
(2Kings 20.1-7) (2Chronicles 32.24) (Isaiah 38.1-22)
2Chronicles 16.12
12."In the thirty-ninth year of his reign, Asa
(3rd king of Judah) was diseased in his feet, and his disease became severe, yet even in his disease he did not seek the Lord
but sought help from physicians."
2Kings 1.2-8.16
2.And Ahaziah
(8th king of Israel, son of Ahab) fell through the lattice in his upper chamber, which was in
Samaria,
and became ill. So he sent messengers and said to them, "
Go, inquire of *
Baal-zebub, the god of *
Ekron whether I shall recover from this sickness."
*Baal-zebub. *Ekron. Translated as "lord of lies." Main temple of whom perhaps was in Ekron, which was on the territory of Judah, and was probably under control of the Philistines.
3.But the angel of the Lord said to Elijah the Tishbite, "Arise, go up to meet the messengers of the king of Samaria and say to them,
'Is it because there is no GOD in Israel that you are going to inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron?'
4.Now therefore, thus says the Lord,
'You shall not come down from the bed where you have gone up, but you shall surely die.' Then Elijah departed.
5.When the messengers returned to him, he said to them, "Why have you returned?"
6.And they said to him, "A man came up to meet us and said to us, 'Go, return to the king who sent you, and say to him, thus says the Lord,
'Is it because there is no GOD in Israel that you are sending to inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron? Therefore, you shall not come down from the bed where you have gone up, but shall surely die."
7.And he said to them, "What kind of man was he, who came up to meet you and spoke these words to you?"
8.And they answered him, "He was a hairy man with a leather girdle bound about his loins." And he said, "It is Elijah the Tishbite."
16.Then he
(Elijah the Tishbite) said to him
(Ahaziah, 8th king of Israel, son of Ahab), "Thus says the Lord,
'Because you have sent messengers to inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron, is it because there is no GOD in Israel to inquire of His Word? Therefore, you shall not come down from the bed where you have gone up, but surely die."
In the NT Jesus often heal with the words, "
your faith has made you well."
I presented here verses of how people use different means to heal themselves from their diseases, and this is very small portion of all those healing that actually occur in the Bible.
I think, as Christians, we shall strike a certain balance between relying on doctors, medicine, and modern methods of treatment, and faith in GOD.
In times like this our faith in GOD put to the real test.
Myself, I had no insurance of any kind, and my saving is not big, and I know that if something happens to me, I am doomed. But my logic is this, that I have to face the Lord sooner or later, and why I should struggle and resists the Lord's call then my time is up?
Is it not better to be with the Lord for eternity than constantly suffer on this Earth, lose your love ones, and face death in agony and pain? Is it physical life better than the spiritual life?
I will pray for you and your wife tonight to heal you and to give you additional years of life like GOD has done for Hezekiah, but again, GOD make His own decisions for each and everyone of us, and we have to submit ourselves to His will.
Let GOD bless you Tyndale and your wife and heal you and your wife, and let the Lord's will prevail, and His glory, love, and mercy, to shine forever above all His creations.
Amen.